Month: February 2016

Completed in 2016, the 8,881-square-foot home sits on a 706-acre rural property surrounded by rivers and blessed by a temperate year-round climate. Golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, falcons, deer,… Source: Breathtaking fairytale home is worthy of a Hogwarts wizard

When most people think of rainforests, they think of a tropical jungle — but rainforests can exist in temperate regions that receive heavy rain, too. These forests are rare, found mostly along the… Source: Canada just saved one of Earth’s last temperate rainforests

Dupuis is the architect of this peculiar home in the woods. That is, if you call a man who makes a home out of shipping containers an architect. By day, Dupuis is an engineer and renewable energy… Source: A Canadian man built this off-grid shipping container home for just $20,000

Cocoon Tree is a spherical aluminium structure that weighs only 130 pounds. Rigged up with ropes and secured by nets, the structure has 12 locking points for both the suspension and for lateral… Source: Cocoon Tree: A lightweight, spherical treehouse for sustainable living